WebAssembly
A WebAssbembly Thread should interoperate with a tasklet efficiently.
Going farther it might be deseriable that a tasklet be indistinguisable from a WebAssembly Thread.
How is that going to be possible? The tasklet proposal says that Atomics.wait() in a tasklet must throw TypeError (technically, its [[CanBlock]] property is set to false).
I'm suggesting that the people working on WebAssembly threads and tasklets communicate with each other so that incompatibilities can be worked out early in each other's development cycle. As development seems to be proceeding simultaneously for both.
Something like a weekly meeting and sharing of documents or ...
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017, 6:08 AM Lars T Hansen [email protected] wrote:
Going farther it might be deseriable that a tasklet be indistinguisable from a WebAssembly Thread.
How is that going to be possible? The tasklet proposal says that Atomics.wait() in a tasklet must throw TypeError (technically, its [[CanBlock]] property is set to false).
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I think there is an interesting interaction with tasklets, but not w.r.t WebAssembly.Thread but, rather, based on the general goal of ES Module integration, you would be able to tasklet.addModule('foo.wasm') and that should Just Work.
SGTM, but I would hope other thread semantics would also "just" work such as shared memory and atomics.
On Mon, Jul 3, 2017, 12:42 PM Luke Wagner [email protected] wrote:
I think there is an interesting interaction with tasklets, but not w.r.t WebAssembly.Thread but, rather, based on the general goal of ES Module integration https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1087, you would be able to tasklet.addModule('foo.wasm') and that should Just Work.
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That is indeed the plan, though not specific to tasklets, but workers in general and shared memory via SharedArrayBuffer.